Academy Announces Dates for 2017 Oscar Nominations and Voting

You're probably going to want to clear your schedule for February 26, 2017.

Just a day after causing an industry stir by inviting a record-breaking 683 new members into the organization, The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have revealed key dates for the 2016-17 Oscar race. None of these dates should come as a surprise since they line up pretty nicely with last year’s schedule, but what will be interesting is to see how distributors plan their awards releases moving forward now that Thursday, January 5 is the start date for nomination voting. Expect big titles to open a little sooner than the usual limited Christmas Day qualifying release.

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James M.
July 5, 2016 3:27 pm

If a number of African Americans are nominated in acting categories next year, proponents of the absurd membership changes will declare their activism triumph, instead of owing the result to what it is: a return to normal cycle after an odd 2-year anomaly.